Using Psychology for Pain Relief and Opioid Reduction (SOP67)

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The national conversation on opioids focuses mostly on abuse and overdose deaths but there are millions of Americans using opioids to manage chronic pain. Can integrating psychological approaches into pain care offer some patients low-risk pain treatment options? Beth Darnall, PhD, from Stanford University, explains how psychology and mindfulness can treat pain and help people with chronic pain live better lives. APA is currently seeking proposals for APA 2020, click here to learn more https://convention.apa.org/proposals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Speaking of Psychology, a podcast produced by the American Psychological
0:23.8	Association.
0:24.8	I'm your host, Caitlin Luna.
0:26.5	I'm joined by Dr. Beth Darnell, a clinical professor at Stanford University, whose research
0:31.3	focuses on how to best treat and prevent chronic pain, as well as strategies for opioid
0:36.1	use reduction.
0:37.1	Welcome Dr. Darnell. Hi, Caitlin. Thanks so much for having reduction. Welcome Dr. Darnal.
0:38.3	Hi, Caitlin.
0:39.3	Thanks so much for having me.
0:40.3	Of course.
0:41.3	We're happy to have you here.
0:42.3	So first, the national discourse right now often focuses on the negative aspects of opioid
0:47.3	use.
0:48.3	Can you talk about whether it's a positive thing for people to use?
0:51.3	Absolutely.
0:52.3	So I think when most people think about opioids, they think
0:56.0	about painkillers. And opioids can be very beneficial for pain in the short run. So we call that acute
1:04.0	pain. After surgery or an injury, very brief time limited use. In fact, a lot of different types of pain, including acute pain,
1:12.7	can be well managed with more conservative pharmaceuticals
1:16.6	and even without pharmaceuticals at all.
1:20.3	But opioids can be beneficial for acute pain.
1:23.7	It's when the prescriptions start persisting,
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